As this, the most secure election in the history of this country by chris krebs, lifelong republican charged with securing the vote. The Washington Post reporting over the weekend only 27 republicans have acknowledged the fact of the Election Result, indisputed fact. Post writes that the results of the survey demonstrate the fear most republicans have of the outgoing president and his grip on the party, despite his new status as just the third elected president to lose reelection in the past 80 years. More than 70 of republican lawmakers did not acknowledge the post questions as of friday evening. Thats about 220 republicans in all. The 220 elected officials will have blood on their hands if any harm comes to the local and statewide Office Holders now receiving Death Threats from Trump Supporters who believe Donald Trumps lies. Two of the gop officials under the most brutal assault by trump and his voters, georgia Secretary Of State, brad raffensperger, and Georgia Election official Ga
Will try to fill in his space as he expresses his culinary abilities. Francine we will get clarification on what he is working on. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. S p global is on the verge of a giant deal in the Financial Information industry. Bloomberg has learned that the company is in advanced talks to for 44s markets billion. An agreement could be announced as soon as today. It would be the second biggest deal of the year. President trumps coronavirus taskforces propping promising a rapid rollout of the vaccine to 2 million americans i the end of the year. The Surgeon General expects that most americans will have access by early in the second quarter. He says the government hopes to quickly ok requests from two drugmakers for emergency approval of their vaccines. A group of opecplus ministers could reach an agreement on whether to delay januarys oil a fullincrease, before meeting of the cartel and its allies today.
This 2020 president ial election. We have a keen interest in that and we think a lot of American People do, as well, and we want to call attention to our efforts to communicate with the department of justice and attorney general barr to have him include us in the information that hes ostensibly, appears to be, anyway, that theyre investigating, but weve seen none and im want sure anyone in america has. We will hear from several of our members today. The first one well hear from is congressman ralph norman from South Carolina. Raff ralph . Thank you, chairman. I thank all of you for coming out. The bedrock of our republic is open, transparent, Fair Elections and thats what as andy alluded to, we are encouraging the doj and were encouraging an open transition of examining everything and where theres smoke theres fire and immediately after november 3rd, the press started calling for the president to concede and basically anoint biden. These things take time and al gore got 37 days in one
Change the outcome . Matthew whitaker in that. Bill barr is looking into election irregularities. I will ask former utah congressman Jason Chaffetz why it is so important to let the Legal Process continue. All that and so much more on making money. Charles so the stock market had been all about the have and havenots for couple years. More so this year with the work at home stocks taking off like into outer space but now tech source that sorely underperformed are surging, and doing it with the kind of vigor we normally associate with megagrowth stocks. The nasdaq came into the session up more than 30 for the year. Since october the story has been the small cap names. Russell has gone from the worse to the first, from worst to first over that short period of time. Many investor are saying stop the crazy stock market. I want to get off. Should they instead rotate into the beaten down names instead . Lets ask bny alicia left convening, Michelle Snyder and bellpointe chief strategist, david
Vote vote vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the yeas are 64, the nays are 24. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Thune madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , i have four requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have a approval of the majority and minority leaders. The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Thune madam president , before i begin, i want to acknowledge the tremendous news released yesterday that early